Wikistorical - Historical Timeline

Timeline of Human Prehistory;

Africa, Over Six Million Years Ago (MYA): First Provable Evidence of hominoids in Africa.
Africa, Circa (ca) 6 MYA: First Hominoids (Orrorin tugenesis) appear in East Africa.
World, From ca 2.5 MYA to 10,000 Years Ago (YA): Old Stone Age (Paleolithic).
World, ca 2.3 MYA to 1.5 MYA: Homo Habilis uses stone tools. First signs of culture and animal sacrifice.
Africa, ca 1.8 MYA: Primitive people (Homo Erectus) migrate from Africa, hominoids migrate north and east from Africa.
World, ca 1.8 MYA to 1 MYA: Development of language for communication.
Asia, ca 1.7 MYA to 300,000 YA: The "Java Man".
World, ca 500,000 YA: The first use of fire.
Asia, ca 600,000 to 200,000 YA: The "Peking Man".
Europe, ca 150,000 to 30,000 YA: Neanderthals (Homo Neanderthalensis).
Europe, ca 40,000 YA: Cro-Magnon people in Europe (Homo Sapiens Sapiens).
World, From ca 10,000 BC New Stone Age (Neolithic); Transition to farming and cattle herding.
Middle East, From ca 9,000 BC: Large settlement of Jericho in Palestine.
Middle East, From ca 7,000 BC: Large settlement of Catalhoyuk in Turkish Anatolia.
Middle East, From ca 5,000 BC: Metal production and processing in the Middle East, along with copper.
Middle East, 5th to 4th millennium BC: Tell cultures in Mesopotamia.
Asia, From ca 4,500 BC: Long Shang culture in China.
World, From 3rd millennium BC: Production and Processing of bronze.
Africa & Asia, From 3,000 BC: First high cultures in Mesopotamia (Sumerians), Egypt and Pakistan.

Timeline of Early History;